Bluetooth File Sharing under GNOME 2.22
There was a tool in gnome-bluetooth package called “Bluetooth File Sharing” in GNOME pre 2.20. This tool is not available in recent Linux distribution.
There is a better way to configure sharing and receiving files over Bluetooth. Install gnome-user-share package. It is used to share Public folder over WebDAV+Zeroconf, and recently it got support for Bluetooth [...]
Sound in Tremulous under Ubuntu PulseAudio
Tremulous is our office-favourite time killer.
It uses OpenAL for sound, which does not play well with Ubuntu PulseAudio installation. There is a simple way to convince it to work - just point OpenAL to use ALSA or SDL and it works fine then.
Use this one-liner in your ~/.openalrc
$ cat ~/.openalrc
(define devices ‘(alsa sdl))
Note from Garoth: [...]
